As a matter of fact the casino business in Cambodia has become quickly amid the most recent eighteen months and one of the primary purposes behind that development is because of the deluge of players and gamblers from Mainland China. The Cambodian government and Cambodian casinos have profited from card sharks in Mainland China, it gives the idea that casinos in Sihanoukville have depended excessively intensely on Mainland China players. Chinese powers as of late directed an attack in Sihanoukville as they associated a number with Mainland Chinese nationals who were working in Sihanoukville casinos to include in an intricate transnational coercion ring. Chinese powers teaming up with the Cambodian movement powers chose to assault a guesthouse and estate in Sihanoukville on the 31st of October as they associated key individuals with the telecom blackmail ring to be working from these areas.
The policed captured 168 Chinese nationals and will take them back to China to be arraigned. The powers charge that these people worked a web operation that focused on rich people in Mainland China and caught them into a coercing plan that got noteworthy measures of income. The powers likewise focused on a comparable operation in Indonesia and expressed that more than 4,000 telecom blackmail cases were completed till date. This sting operation has frightened several Chinese nationals who were working in Sihanoukville casinos furthermore voyagers who were normal players at the casino. These Chinese nationals have surrendered their employments at Sihanoukville’s casinos and players have likewise chosen to move far from this beach front town which has now turned into an objective for the Chinese powers. Various casino administrators and hotel foundations stay suspicious of the crackdown and met with neighborhood powers and the commonplace senator to acquire clarity into the examination as the mass departure has seriously affected their revenues.
Ly Koung, owner of the Majestic Hotels said “We have no more customers, and our workers have quit. Arresting Chinese nationals who work in casinos without any clear evidence made our Chinese staff fearful and many resigned, which forced us to close the casino. If those arrested are found guilty, we support this police action, but if they are in fact innocent then these arrests have [irresponsibly] incited fear.”